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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 8h

#293. The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie The explanation at the end for how the killer(s) did their thing was so convoluted that I sort of just gave up on making sense of it. Maybe not a good sign.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 8h

Not an insult or anything, it just seems like literally the only people seeing Digger are people with Letterboxd accounts.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 9h

People keep making up this fake rivalry between Digger and OBAA like AGI and PTA aren't friends.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 9h

#292. Beat - Bowery Electric Put on "Postscript" and, I'm not kidding, I think both of my cats fell asleep.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 9h

Project Hail Mary is a good movie, except for it clearly being written by someone who seems like they live in a blue state but vote red.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 10h

It's funny how Top Gun is Tony Scott's most famous movie, and yet it's literally nobody's favorite Tony Scott movie.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13h

#OtD 7 Oct 2023 after decades of occupation and apartheid armed Palestinians led by Hamas broke out of Gaza and attacked Israel. Israel responded with what is almost universally recognised now to be a genocide of the Palestinian people stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1294...

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#291. Angels - Denis Johnson (reread) I think we owe it to God and ourselves to abolish the prison system.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s October, which means it’s time for pumpkins, skeletons, apple cider, and everyone’s favorite furry Egyptian god. It’s “The Opener of the Way” by Robert Bloch, from the October 1936 issue of Weird Tales! sffremembrance.com/2026/10/04/s...

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Short Story Review: “The Opener of the Way” by Robert Bloch

(Cover by J. Allen St. John. Weird Tales, October 1936.) Who Goes There? Robert Bloch is one of those rare prodigies in prose writing, having solder his first story when he was all of 15 or 16. He …

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#290. The Mugger - Ed McBain Plays out like an hour-long episode of a TV drama, complete with an A- and B-plot, although this was 1956 and McBain’s 87th Precinct series would prove influential on TV, rather than the other way around.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With all due respect to Donald Sutherland, who's arguably the better actor, Alan Alda is THE Hawkeye. Like the definitive version of that character. Sutherland's Hawkeye feels like an impostor, despite being there first.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not sure what's worse with the Criterion Channel change, the UI now looking super generic or the subs becoming these ugly blocky poorly formatted things you can't do nothing about.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't tell what gender the Steam sale dragon is supposed to be, but the androgyny only makes it more attractive.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have never seen a single left-progressive figure take Bernie Sanders to task for his abhorrent positions on Israel and immigration btw.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

he's merely cultivated the appearance of having changed for the better. Keep in mind that his whole thing is being a ponderous, tender-hearted, kinda nerdy "male feminist." That is his thing. And you simply cannot reconcile that with what he's done.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

making huge assumptions about his character that we actually have no concrete basis for. We don't know if this is the only time he's raped some poor woman, and we don't know if he's actually worked on himself over the past decade or if

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not to add to "the discourse," but it's telling that a lot of online lefties (primarily leftist men, it must be said) are defending Jacob Geller based on taking his words at face value (ya know, the words of a rapist who's trying to defend his public image) and also

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#289. White Blood Cells - The White Stripes (relisten) The year is 2026 and somehow I keep thinking Jack White is saying the F-slur on "Offend in Every Way."

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm back from my vacation, and just in time for spooky season! This month's review forecast has horror stories by the likes of Robert Bloch, Joyce Carol Oates, George R. R. Martin, and other masters of the weird and horrific! sffremembrance.com/2026/10/01/t...

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Things Beyond: October 2026

(Cover by Ron Walotsky. F&SF, October 1984.) 95 years ago, there was the publication of a horror anthology. The book was titled Creeps by Night, and the editor was none other than Dashiell Hamm…

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really hate the "right-wing trad person secretly queer" cliche in part because, like every cliche, it is sometimes true.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#288. Coyote vs. Acme Expecting gayness from this movie was like losing chess to a dog, except in this case the dog had been studying the game its whole life.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#287. Amulet - Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews) What is lack in plot it makes up for as one of Bolaño’s most moving pieces. There’s a palpable melancholy relating to Bolaño’s history as a once-young leftist. Think I’ll (re)read The Savage Detectives next.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bolaño continues to be one of the funniest mfs in the bizz (from Amulet).

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trying to think up a leftist reading of Chainsmoker Cat (which there’s a lot of evidence for tbh) without sounding ridiculous.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#286. Alien Metal - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard I can see why this would be one of King Gizz’s more divisive records, but lyrically I can believe it’s from the same guys who made PetroDragonic Apocalypse. I think these guys are worried about climate change idk.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Take a shot every time something gay happens in a random episode of MASH, I fucking dare you.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is that edition of Solaris the old (bad) translation or did they finally bring the new one to print?

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#285. Paris Trout - Pete Dexter The vibes start off bad, and somehow they just get worse. Paris Trout himself is surely one of the most evil and demented characters in literature, scarier and yet more enigmatic than Stephen King’s biggest monsters.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#284. Black Money - Ross Macdonald In a bold move for the 1960s, this novel posits that maybe college professors shouldn’t be sleeping with their students.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#283. Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses) - Grateful Dead Some pretty good covers here, especially the seamless one-two punch of the final track, but my favorite track has to be the 8-minute death march that is "Wharf Rat." Might be the Dead at their darkest.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#282. Naked Lunch (rewatch) Maybe I shouldn't do heroin. Maybe I shouldn't have become a writer either.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Share a film image that still haunts you.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wouldn't even go that far, I think most cis men are uggo.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Final episode of #ChainsmokerCat (hopefully we get a season 2 announcement soon) was basically everything I could've wanted out this weird, gross, but also sincere anime. It's zany as fuck, but its heart (surprisingly) is pure. I'm gonna miss these girls a lot.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not ashamed to admit I would've folded instantly. #ChainsmokerCat

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#281. Chainsmoker Cat (season 1?) "I want to smoke while basking in the sun with all my friends."

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#280. Primetime (2026) Would be a career peak for most actors but for Robert Pattinson it's like, another day of the week.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#279. Souvenirs d’un autre monde - Alcest (relisten) Actually more accessible than I remember it being, but then I was in college last time I heard it. At times soothing and upbeat blackgaze, with an emphasis on the shoegaze half.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t believe in religious persecution, but we really should look into the LDS Church’s role in facilitating fascism in the US.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Underrated aspect of MASH that sets it apart from other sitcoms, even those made decades later, is how cinematic it all feels, especially without the laugh track. The direction, the sets, the lighting, it's more like TV movies of the era than its fellow sitcoms.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exorcist II is a bad movie, in almost every way, but it's also helmed by one of the most interesting and out-there filmmakers of his era and it shows.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#278. American Beauty - Grateful Dead (relisten) An album that glows with such friendliness and empathy that it gives you a sense of already being familiar with it, even if you've never heard it before.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of women, even if they’re not straight, are insecure about the idea of their man having voluntarily taken it up the ass, or sucked another man’s dick. It’s why a lot of bisexual men lie about their orientation or act coy about it.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

PTA lowkey being a Zionist is one of those things that keeps me up at night, as someone deeply influenced by his art.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#277. Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead One of those albums we had on CD since forever because of my dad, but I don't remember if I'd heard this in full before. I will say, I had a brain blast of nostalgia when "Casey Jones" came on. Damn good country-rock record.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did not know so many Letterboxd users go to bat for this movie ngl.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#276. End Zone - Don DeLillo A common criticism of DeLillo’s writing is that his characters don’t talk like real people, but rather like what you might call denizens of DeLilloland. In the case of End Zone this oddness is sort of contextualized, but I won’t say how.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#275. Second Song - Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts Honestly a great album to listen to just as autumn is finally starting to set in, which incidentally is now.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#274. Dead Ringers (rewatch) People like to bring up The Fly as the prime example of Cronenberg getting all "emotional," but there's something almost existentially heartbreaking about this movie.

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Brian Collins @bdcollins95.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#273. The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer (reread) Considered by critics to be one of the great war novels, this is also one of the great novels about failure. It's about masculinity being pushed to the limit, to the point where the male ego breaks down. It rules.

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